While we are on a LoTR angle of More Stuff, here's something I picked up today. My daughter and her husband visited New Zealand a couple years back and took in many of the filming locations for the movie. One of the stops was Hobbiton- the set was developed into an attraction to visit. You can tour ...

Driving in Houston, you have an extensive menu of "Things to Run Over" to choose from: Construction debris. Demolition debris. Parts of other vehicles. Potholes. Random stuff that falls off vehicles. More potholes. Things that sorry POS people throw from their vehicles because they are sorry POS. Ti...

Took Jasper to King's BierHaus in the Houston Shady Acres area (near the Heights) last Friday evening to see how she would do in that sort of environment. KBH has a great selection of imports on tap! I enjoyed a Franziskaner Hefeweizen and shared a pretzel with The J. She was a good girl, didn't eat...

Needless to say, the people that _grew up_ here didn't give a crap about the history and wanted to keep the name. All the people who migrated here were desperate to force the school district to spend all the money on the renaming. Sometimes I wish we could just take everyone from California and pus...

I think that's part of what keeps being forgotten, or trodden on in the desire for politically correctness. The 'Stars and Bars' weren't a sign of slavery. They were a sign of solidarity - just like the original 13 state flag, and the adding of stars as they went along. I believe that if a KKK memb...

Whether you prefer War of Northern Aggression or Civil War, I have experienced both sides of the view. I will say that the Southern folks are a bit more emphatic on their name for the conflict. My European forebearers settled north of the Mason-Dixon line. One side showed up in the late 1600's in th...

Blast and damn. Paul seems to be the focus of the health-focused version of Monica's "winter hates me" anomaly-storm. Now, what's all this I hear about kidney scones? I know the English enjoy their scones, and consider kidney pie to be traditional, but putting the two together and making kidney sco...

Wasn't William Cannon the narrator with the "best" puns? Conrad got to make a lot of them, yes, since the "tune in next time" almost always had one built in. And, the narrator ended up as the designated stuckee for one really brilliant/horrid pun, which both Rocky and Bullwinkle said they were unwi...

No, no... everybody misunderstands that point. The doctor was well aware that combining limes and coconuts is quicky and inevitably fatal. He knew he could do nothing to help and that, the next day, he would be invited to attend the wake for his (former) patient. He would have to put on his ritual ...